Brilliant Beacons Writing Club

Prepared by: Beln Egan for Project Illuminate (Brilliant Beacons Writing Club), 2014

July 10, 2014

Project Illuminate: Brilliant Beacons Writing Club

Agenda for July 11, 2014

Topic: Gathering seeds in your writers notebook (Writing and Sketching)

Key concepts:
1. Writers collect and explore ideas in their writers notebooks.
2. Writers will list favorite food, movie, book, and quotation/saying.
3. Writers will use a graphic organizer in describing the sensory details for each of the
favorites.

Learning outcomes:
1. Students use their notebooks to collect information and ideas by writing, sketching,
and gluing/glueing in artifacts.
2. Students date each entry when they begin to write or sketch.
3. Students will use a graphic organizer (i.e., semantic map) to visualize their thoughts.
4. Students will learn how to use descriptive words through sensory details.

Resources:
1. Writers notebook
2. Graphic organizer
3. Pens/pencils

Source: Fountas, I. C., & Pinnell, G. S. (2001). Guiding readers and writers: Teaching
comprehension, genre, and content literacy. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.